Getting started? Protect your personal assets by incorporating your business or forming a Limited Liability Company (LLC). The Company Corporation's fast, online services and friendly staff simplify the often complex process of business formation.

Incorporation is just the beginning. The Company Corporation offers many products and services to help you grow and manage your business. As your needs evolve, we'll stand by you. Let us focus on the details so you can focus on running a profitable business.

The Company Corporation has incorporated more than 750,000 small businesses. We can trace our roots back more than a century. We were the first company to provide Internet-based incorporation services and we continue to invest in the best technology to help our customers.

Trademark Registration

You've come up with a great brand name and company logo. Now it's time to protect it. When you register a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), you gain exclusive rights to use that brand name and logo within the United States.

Trademarks

A trademark includes any word, name, symbol, or device used in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others. To simplify, a trademark is a brand name used in connection with goods.

The Company Corporation has partnered up with The Trademark Company to offer a process that is fast and simple. You can choose from two (2) packages: Economy or Platinum.

The Economy Package includes:

Application filed electronically with the U.S. patent and trademark office within one (1) business day by a licensed U.S. attorney

Application professionally reviewed to ensure it is error-free before submission

Responses to procedural issues raised by the U.S. patent and trademark office

Status reports on the progress of your registration

U.S. certificate of registration mailed to you upon receipt thereof

Calendaring and notice of all renewal deadlines

The Platinum Package includes:

A direct hit search of the federal trademark database prior to your filing to identify potential conflicts in the registration process

Application filed electronically with the U.S. patent and trademark office within one (1) business day by a licensed U.S. attorney

Application professionally reviewed to ensure it is error-free before submission

Responses to procedural issues raised by the U.S. patent and trademark office

A trademark or service mark includes any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used or intended to be used to identify and distinguish the goods or services of one seller or provider from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods or services. Trademarks are different than copyrights (music, etc), and patents (intellectual property).

Trademarks are filed by completing a series of applications online or by regular mail. Trademarks are filed according to industry class. It is possible to have a name trademarked in multiple industry classes. (i.e. - Nike can register its trademark in the shoe industry, and also register its trademark in the sports equipment Industry.)

It is difficult to predict how long it will take for an application to mature into a registration, because there are so many factors that can affect the process. If the trademark is filed as a Use-Based Application (registering an existing use of a trademark) it will take less time to mature into registration than if it is filed as an Intent-to-Use Application (reserving a trademark for future use).

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